you. the red machine it buckles after a ten round shootout against team usa in a bitterly fought hockey faceoff the russia takes solace in winning two golds and a silver medal in the day's events. denied care every minute may count for a russian pilot in the u.s. jail as the prison is allegedly refusing him medical assistance. from his wife and lawyer say he's critically ill. the sliding scale of justice we find out how in israel committing crimes can get you time behind bars or not depending on your ethnicity.

and broadcasting live direct from our studios in moscow this is our team shawn thomas glad to have you with us we start with a sport where day eight of the tsotsi olympics has seen its share of both highs and lows with a few disappointments as well as resoundingly successes perhaps the most significant event was the nail biting hockey match between the russian red machine and a team usa at the bolshoi ice arena the game has already been called an instant classic a few reflected by the twenty thousand spectators who went to go see it the group stage clash was only decided by a penalty shoot out after both teams failed to find the edge in regular time here's our paul scott to take us through the game. it promised a drama and julie delivered one of the most thrilling ice hockey matches in winter olympic history really went the way of the usa in the most dramatic of

circumstances it was two two at the end of regulation time with nothing separating the two sides russia captain pavel datsyuk led by example he gave the home side the lead midway through the second period a great moment for him he of course plays his hockey in the n.h.l. but goals from. and then. put the usa to one up before it was on hand again to level matches at two two with five minutes to go russia thought they'd done enough to win the match but what would have been the winning goal was cancelled out in the final few moments because the net had come away from its moorings it was a controversial moment with even the u.s. coach admitting afterwards that he was surprised that the goal didn't stand now it was a physical robust but only contest between two fierce rivals the game eventually went into overtime but still nothing separated the two sides and eventually the usa prevailed in a long rocking ten round shootout and these u.s. hockey stars. have been expecting

a tough challenge as crazy as the back and forth game. we score and we score they scored. so it was it was a good game as a hard teams. it seemed like from the very beginning it was going to be coming down to an overtime and possibly a shootout no matter if the crowd's behind your. against you to play in front of such a rowdy crowd so much noise and so much buzz and it was it was really fun and as hockey players you want to play in an environment like that russia are still likely to qualify for the next stage of the competition they now face slovakia in their final group game on sunday that's a match they now have to win and afterwards are to gauge the reaction of some of the fans who were fortunate enough to be inside the bolshoi. when i came here. with a friend of mine just to see the match we're very disappointed and we hope our team will still show their worth at these games but it's still a look at the new boss lee this isn't the last game russia will deliver yet we just

have to believe in them who can cheer for them. to come to the mass how many are like that you will score the best country that we had had an issue nationally and even there are some long guys don't let us down next time the whole such a whole country's cheering for you. at each game was great the guys did well our captain is the best we can still do it i have no doubt about that and the about that i have to steal it in our team in sochi spoke to puzzle bray and internationally renowned ice hockey veteran who was known as the russian rocket when he was in the n.h.l. he says the competition that we're seeing now is basically as good as it gets but shellac a chills i'd rather see that and all the best players in the world column here and play for the concert so it's so close if i would. extend the same thing go world cup and i am a sucker enough is going to win it you know brazil's paid leave but with fred see

it some way to good teams that's why everybody watching and enjoying. now one of the spectators in the stands during that game was our very own and he said and she told my colleague kevin owen her impressions of the contest between the two hockey powerhouses. it was an intense. match to watch all together partly rooting for russia because they are the underdogs and they haven't won for twenty years but so much controversy is kicked off tonight on social media isn't it so what are they indeed there was a goal which of course was counted as a goal by the refs on the ice it was then notified by the international federation because the goalposts was a little bit off its pegs so basically a huge debate going on right now on social media from the american ambassador moscow to russian diplomats i mean people talk he is a political sport because when you look back to the history of the cold war so it's getting a bit in ten thousand there. now after words of one of russia's highest ranking supporters told him he said that fans should not be too down hearted chief of staff

of presidential administration so again of believes that with a week of the games to go the country should keep its pockets open for more medals including. costs today wasn't next week is going to was a good game i liked it i'm still emotional because i came to straight after the game. well it was an equal game it was a tough game it was tied and those penalty shots it's like lottery you're never i guess and besides the game didn't mean much from the final standings point to you so russia still has a very good chance with us and that optimism was shared by many of the home fans particularly after the results came in from other events on saturday russia now tops the overall medal count let's hear again from archie's postcard just how that happened. there was plenty to cheer for our russian sports fans on

saturday they added two golds on a silver medal to that tally now in the men's skeleton event alexander tretyakov he won gold with a totally dominant display he led from start to finish off to setting a truck record in the first round but will his hard work has paid off over the last four years he's improved on the bronze medal he won in vancouver four years ago elsewhere russia secured a one to win the men's one thousand meter short track speed skating it was a great time to cool display by the russian jew i do lead from start to finish they took the lead and didn't look back to actually won the gold medal to add to the bronze that he won in the fifteen hundred meters of earlier on in these games while the silver medal went to. of now those additions to the tally have moved russia third in the overall medals table germany and switzerland have more golds but the host nation now has more medals than any other country were good news there for russia but things didn't look so rosy wanted to emerge that russian ski cross racer

maria commissar of broke her spine during a training session the twenty three year old had to undergo emergency surgery for over six hours to repair the damage but the procedure was a success and to come and is now in stable condition that's good news and she wasn't alone in finding the course is tough though those taking part in the women's super g. skiing suffered some misfortune as well falls missed gates and penalties saw athlete after athlete miss out on a chance at the medals and in all only eighteen actually eighteen of the forty nine skiers taking part did not finish. a peruvian cross-country skier came to our studios in sochi to tell us how he competed despite having a broken rib. it was a very very tough race for me it was a long one i was expecting to go away given the broken dangerous. and.

when i crossed the finish line. a lot of support. came from peru from even from the goal winner or gold medal winner and the reason you've done this is to inspire youngsters to take up your sport back in peru you have got a message for the buck improves and i will give you is what i say to them well thank you very much for all that. it took me alone time a little pain but we're through but it was worth it and i hope you can use this message for better use. meanwhile the sochi olympics are being scouted by other major sporting organizations including formula one officials and consultants to the premier racing brand to have been judging the city and its authorities on the handling of the olympic games and judging by what they have been telling us they're pretty enthusiastic about seeing those race cards soaring around such. all you have to do is is look around at the amazing efforts and

facilities that have been created for the olympics the same effort is being put in to create a world facility for formula one and i think that it will be definitely one of the best facilities in the world when it's completed the passion is here the can do attitude is here and the willingness of people to succeed and i think this is key to the success of the from the one project well between all of the cheering and sports visitors and athletes alike need to on wind and relax fortunately sochi is not just the olympic host but the capital of black sea nightlife as well arty's martin andrews has been out on the tiles after dark. medals locked away from their home the sun has set and it's time to party there are tens of thousands of new business during the games and it's not just hotels

restaurants and shops that are busier than ever before the night life here is booming hosting the olympics means mixing it up and whether you want to mingle with celebrities elites night clubs who fancy something a little more traditional like. to be hard pushed to feel left out so get your dancing shoes on let you head down. to midnight. very popular with locals and visitors can listen to various like music from jazz to contemporary electronica. clubs here are open twenty four seven ideal for energetic tourists was a very positive surprise because it's really very well organized around here. that would be alive only during the summer months. in winter.

feeling package after all that partying look no further than the old port down grab some food and relax next to the cozy heaters the partying and socializing here doesn't ever stop during the daytime there are options for every taste and travel and there's no excuse to go back to your hotel and wait for the sun to rise everybody can eat good food have to. take. foreign euro and everybody how happy because you have a good atmosphere. and there's more than assure the dozens of clubs in sochi and there's also the high life of the new mountain of trust. this is sky club and or inspiring view over the mountains it's the perfect place for mingling with fellow travelers and athletes to relax after a hard day's competing or spectating. but everything here is amazing the menus and

infrastructure and all athletes are very pleased russia is renowned for its bible and nightlife culture and hip and happening to our use of such a large no exception from the sizzling sure to the cool snowy peaks so she's got you all night out it's covered. well day eight of the olympics also had a special significance it's exactly a year since the massive meteorite struck near chelyabinsk in the urals and in memory of that of those who made to the podium will get a second set of medals each one with a piece of the meteorite embedded in them but unfortunately not straight away the international olympic committee says athletes can be given whatever prize or host country wants just not during the games and says that the only wards to be recorded during the games themselves are the original medals gold silver and bronze so those

are beautiful pieces will just have to wait a little bit longer before they reach their victorious owners. that we will continue our coverage of the sochi olympic games next hour in the meantime stay with us for more news after a short break you're watching our two international. the g. twenty fourteen promises and exhilarating winter sports an eight thirty eastern hour make seven zero and the rest of our lives take you staying to sochi twenty four take. on.

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and welcome back you're watching r t international now time may be running out for a russian pilot jailed in the u.s. according to his lawyer constantine. has been refused vital medical help despite being at death's door and even now top russian officials are urging washington to intervene as artie's oleksiak chef ski reports. first he received twenty years in prison in the united states for a crime he never committed on the american soil now it has gone from bad to worse for russian violent constantin you know. he called me in the morning and told me he felt very sick and that he'd be lucky to survive until monday he seems to be having a heart attack because he told me he was suffocating experienced heart pain and was almost unable to walk he was beaten severely when he was arrested and has not they're still unwell for a long time but his pleas for medical help have been ignored and he felt sick with

him and lock up and left him on the cold floor he tried to get a doctor but all he was offered was flu medication and some antibiotics sometimes they don't even let me send him letters and they have refused to let any russian officials meet with the prison chief or the head doctor you know show because lawyer told r.t. that the head doctor at the new jersey prison where he's being held will not expedite his treatment which could have the worst possible consequences monday was also a federal holiday in the united states so my supposition would be that any kind of medical treatment to a constant in your i shan't go could be provided only. on tuesday the eighteenth of february constantine ya shango sad that he might not live through there we can cast condition requires immediate medical attention you know who was arrested in twenty ten in liberia on suspicion of drug smuggling he was reportedly

severely beaten before being transported to the u.s. where he received a twenty year prison sentence this is not new this is something we've seen repeated over and over again kind of arrogant attitude that washington has asked for other countries and particularly to other countries for nat. doing what washington wants to dictate to do a presence system in the united states the life physicist on the planet highest rate of prisoners any country life is number in both absolute terms in relative terms has no terror are notoriously. disregarding of the rights of prisoners even the most fundamental rights including the return to the mosco has been insisting all along that the way you know shankar's case has been handled regardless of whether he committed the crime or not is a gross violation of human rights probably very beginning the key so if you're a shrink. and. speak in this terms has been absolutely politicized

we have expressed many things that are serious concerns we have a warrant for the u.s. government to many times that. they are under international obligations to take care of. the health of our citizens having failed to get through to washington via official channels the russian foreign ministry resorted to social media and posted a plea for help on its facebook page ever since you know it was delivered to the u.s. russian officials have been denied access with the situation now taking a dramatic turn to russian foreign ministry officials are once again demanding to be allowed to see him along with their own doctors that is of course if you know shankar himself lives to receive that help alexi russia. well the u.s. a penitentiary system is taking the lives not only of those who receive a death sentence but others as well let's take a look at the numbers according to the u.s.

department of justice more than forty five thousand people died in custody in the space of the past decade now some did not even make it to to their trial the editor of prison legal news alex friedman told us that keeping inmates alive isn't always a priority in american jails prisoners might have very serious medical conditions and sometimes be very near death and they're told to sign up on a sick call or that they'll refer them to the nurse the next week or there might not be a doctor at the prison that weekend and so they have to wait until the next week to see medical staff. go received a twenty year sentence he did not receive a death sentence but unless he receives adequate medical care he and other prisoners with serious medical conditions can die while in custody mr you're a shame go was basically kidnapped and you know when he was taken into custody overseas by u.s. officials. the united states really does not have

a lot of respect for the rule of international law when it conflicts with what they want to do. well as always there's more stories on our dot com including italy lightning the burden on its overcrowded prisons by overturning a law that puts marijuana use alongside it. could see the inmates freed. and the mystery of the. red planet pictures seemingly out of nowhere. for an explanation of the phenomenon . israel's borders with its arab neighbors are some of the most heavily fortified on earth but within israeli society itself there's no shortage of tension between jews and muslims arabs make up a fifth of the country's population but as our reports they're not always treated equally under the eyes of law. and i've

a good morning they treat us like israeli citizens only when they want to convict us other than that we're arabs to them and that's the pure racism and big policy of this country that just needs to form even six other arabs were found guilty of attempted to murder in a ton santa and his radio jewish terrorist who took aim at them and. it's a conviction that is hard to comprehend very hard that the innocent and victim is even put on trial let alone convicted of a young african it was here back in august two thousand and five that sutta and israeli soldier who deserted the only used his military issued wife to fire at will passengers on a bus he killed four and wounded seventeen before being attacked by the crowd they grabbed him while he was being handcuffed by police he never made it off the bus and those who were sentenced for his death i think he's moved to the north from the . israelis using acts of power to educate us so that if such attacks happen again

no one will dare to do anything i compared unstudied similar cases to this one in court where i was from israel committed acts against jews and they were killed by james for taking the law into their hands the jews were never convicted and no charges were brought against them it's clear there is a double standard in the justice courts a case in point that doohan and he's ready jew who shot and killed an arab terrorist after he murdered his shiva students while they were studying in jerusalem in two thousand and eight and shot him with two bullets in the head he spun around and he was teetering and then the guy with the m. sixteen who was hiding behind a side door finished the deal we kept shooting at him until we emptied our magazines and that was that. this is they didn't even open an investigation file against not doing one of the police didn't even ask him didn't even check of the arab was dead or not the scales of justice amin to balance in this scale. except

for we seem to insist for killing a jewish terrorist in this scale back doing praised for killing an arab terrorist do they even know it's. israeli no and it's some adoption late feels if anything they took to board would be featured at ninety one is she feels jimmy so for you and his code accused should have received harsher sentences i would say it's a disgrace people who kill someone was hands are tied in the back. who is not a threat anymore a lot of political trial it's a fear of america the conviction sends a message to the arab community that our blood is cheap and they can spare our lives and so the verdicts out is there a double standard at play in israel which is what the courts are meant to determine in the first place policy r.t. television. now take a look at some other stories making headlines around the world this hour in bahrain

a policeman has died of his injuries after he was wounded in a bomb explosion during friday's anti-government protest authorities there say more than two dozen opposition activists have been arrested in clashes with the police the demonstrations marked the third anniversary of an uprising that sought to get equal rights for shia muslims from the sunni ruling party. violent storms have whipped northwest of france are killing one man and leaving a hundred thousand homes without electricity the elderly victim slipped on board a cruise liner being buffeted by gusts of up to one hundred fifty kilometers an hour off of the coast now six regions across the northwest have been placed on high alert. scuffles have broken out in athens between police and public sector workers angry at pay freezes and layoffs officers pushed protesters back from the ministry of administrative reform as they tried to. it into the building

security in greece has been stepped up after a radical leftist group fired shots at the german embassy and attack to the headquarters of mercedes-benz last week. now up ahead at max and stacey take on the financial fraudsters in the kaiser report stay with us this is our to international. but. i didn't know that you know the price is the only industry specifically mentioned in the constitution and. that's because a free and open press is critical to our democracy right albus. in fact the single biggest threat facing our nation today is the corporate takeover of our government and across several we've been hijacked why a handful of friends national corporations they will profit by destroying what our

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welcome to the kaiser report imax kaiser you know what fukushima first began melting down to go through sawdust and diapers into the disaster hole amazingly it didn't work in america when the deepwater horizon oil platform exploded b.p. tried plugging that disaster hole with a golf balls and rubber scrap alas that also didn't work now in the u.k. welly wearing david cameron is out in the drowning tory heartland throwing sandbags soldiers and cash potently into the flood waters but dave all the sticker balls in sheffield going to stop the roads and that is sinking all boats into your black hole of debt economy because it's the triple crunch of environment energy and economy and no junk shop can save us now. not even

a one four seven will save us dave we've been stuck or stacy. he has max it's a triple crunch of environment energy and economy and all the buffoons are throwing everything into the risk that we see around us the first have imax is golf balls fall short coping with twenty first century disasters chucking diapers and golf balls at multibillion dollar calamities so math has to deal with failure primitive at best even as the global hunt for energy enters new frontiers of risk disaster is beyond the coping abilities of a single company or even a country have prompted suggestions that a global body with military scale technical resources is needed now that's bloomberg news and they're talking in particular about energy whether it's tepco or the deepwater horizon disaster but you know look at this disaster heading our way. here to the u.k. yeah many snowballs maxed out of balsa wood i don't think he thinks knuckleballs

could fill this disaster well it's the equivalent you know in the in japan they have many diapers they adult sized diapers that they threw into tepco and in the south of the united states they have lots of golf courses down there so they threw a golf course golf balls here in the u.k. somebody has the gall to take them to stop this disastrous roll from just wiping out britain but let's let's ask let's ask well neil sullivan he's the master said ronnie o'sullivan the current and five time snooker champion who's right here in the studio ronny welcome because the report he did you know all right i saw you at the masters another brilliant performance by the way thank you very much but today we're talking about disasters and snooker balls so here are the five time the current world champion approximately how many snooker balls do you think would it take to show ronnie the photo here to stop this storm vest.